The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-04
PIERRAT STILL IN JAIL.

He is Unable to Give Bond-A Queer
Notion Of the Law-The Forged Sig
natures.
The atfable Frenchman, NJ. Robert Pier
rat, is still is durancs vile One of his
countrymen made an effort to secure bond
for him yesterday, but he did not succeed,
and although he sought the aid of several of
his own countrymen he could not find one
who would risk his ducats upon Pierrat's
promises not to run away. Pierrat has an
elegant prospect Of remaining i'll Jail until
his case comes up before the Superior Court
next winter. He was very uncomfortable
| all day yesterday and he worried a great
deal over his confinement, more than he
would IL he did not labor under the impress
sion that if he could see Mr.. Barrie
he could fix the whole matter up.
He believes that he could induce Mr. Barrie
TO have mercy upon him and not to prose-
cute him, and he thinks that if Mr. Barrie
does not wish to prosecute that he will be
released. He does not know that, being
charged with a felony he cannot be re-
leased by any other means than by the con-
sent of the Superior Court, and ut is not
often that a court will consent to release a
man charged with felony, particularly
when he has confessed the crime. Pierrat
has peculiar notion of forging, and while
he acknowledges that he signed other mems
names and collected his commissions on the
forged subscriptions he does not think that
he was guilty of forgery, because he did
not initiate the real signatures of
the individuals. He thinks that the
imitation of signature, not the signing
of name not his own constitutes forgery,
but he will know more about the law cover
ing that point before he is out of his
troubles.
Mr.. Maclall has selected from the sub
scriptions that Pierrat sent to Barrie more
than fifty that he knows to be forged, and
he has them fastened together in one bunch.
To turn them over and look carefully at the
signatures reveals an amount of cunning
that no one would have accused Pierrat of.
None of them are at all like the
signatures of the men they were in
tended to represent, nor are they like
the signature of Robert Pierrat which
appears on the back of each of the slips.
Pierrat writes a free, graceful hand, and
his own signatures are all alike, as would be
the case with one who is called upon to
write his own name frequently. Every one
of the forged signatures, however, are diff
ferent, and while there is a foreign look
about the writing of them all, there is evil
IDENTIFY reason for the style of the chirog
raphy adopted in each case. A German
name is signed in an angular hand, the let
ters tall and sharp conveying the idea that
inc writer Is accustomed 10 using Une pointed
alphabet of the German. All of the French
names are written with finely
pointed pen. Some of them are
full and round, while others are as dainty
as the writing of woman. The American
names are signed in all sorts of ways. Some
are written with stub pen and the lines
are very heavy-others were written with
pointed pens and they vary in their style
Some are shaded and others are not. There
are signatures of every kind and variety in
that little tell-tale bunch, and no two of
them are enough alike to suggest that they
were written by the same hand.
While Pierrat does not exhibit very
great degree of skill as penman, he GER
tainly has the power of writing poorly in a
number of different styles, and this power
is what has enabled him to carry on his de-
ception for so long time without detection.
Mr.. Barrie is having all the subscriptions
that Pierrat sent in examined, for he does
not know how many are fraudulent, Some
of the names signed are those of men who
have been dead for long time; others Of
men who are out of the city in various parts
Of the country or in Europe. So far as the
matter has been investigated, Pierrats steal
foots up between $3.50 and $500, but it is
probable that thorough investigation will
increase that amount largely.